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24 Mar 2013, 23:50 | Tampa Bay Lightning fired coach Guy Boucher

The Tampa Bay Lightning fired coach Guy Boucher, with the team in next to last place in the Eastern Conference and on its way to missing the playoffs for a second straight year.

Assistants Martin Raymond and Dan Lacroix are to share the coaching temporarly

23 Mar 2013, 15:05 | Barry Smith leaves Tilburg Trappers

Barry Smith leaves Tilburg Trappers. The American coach has decided to not accept an offer for contract extension
In his only season at Tilburg, Smith won the Cup, but lost the national championship in final. Tilburg is looking for a successor to Smith.
The American is still the head coach of the Dutch team.

23 Mar 2013, 14:45 | Oleg Kurin back on Ryazan bench

After a season as club GM, Oleg Kurin will be back on HK Ryazan bench for 2013-14. Kurin coached Ryazan from 2005 to last season before to switch for an administrative position. Ryazan began current season with Anatoly Fedotov but he left the club for health reasons, and Oleg Barsukov was named coach. Ryazan finished last in VHL

21 Mar 2013, 10:26 | MOL Liga Playoffs: HSC Csikszereda defeats DAB Docler in Game 5

HSC Csikszereda scored a sudden death goal 17 minutes into overtime to stun DAB Docler in front of their home crowd.  The Acelbikak had the opportunity to win their second straight MOL Liga championship Wednesday night in front of their home crowd, but they squandered 51 shots on goal and several opportunities on the power play.  Instead HSC Csikszereda seized the moment and are sending the series back to Romania for Game 6.

In his second straight strong appearance, Jan Fadrny scored the game winner and assisted on the tying goal for Csikszereda in the second period.  Fadrny's two points in Game 5 gives him six points in two playoff series (3 goals, 3 assists) and a +5 rating.  Stanislav Kozuch had possibly his best outing of the season for Csikszereda, stopping 50 of 51 shots through 77 minutes of play.  He has kept pace all series with the league's best goalkeeper, Peter Sevela with DAB Docler, who saved 36 of 38 shots.

Artyom Vaszjunyin scored the only goal of the game for DAB Docler int eh first period--it was his second goal of the playoffs.

Game 6 will be played Friday in Csikszereda where DAB Docler has another opportunity to end Csikszereda's season and take home their second straight championship.  With a Csikszereda win, Game 7 will return to Dunaujvaros, Hungary, on Monday night where the MOL Liga Champion will be crowned.

20 Mar 2013, 23:17 | Angers and Rouen to the French finals

Angers and Rouen have qualified for the French finals. Angers beat Epinal in the semi finals. Rouen eliminated Briancon. The first final is played on the 26th.

19 Mar 2013, 12:46 | Amur force game #4

The Nadezhda Cup finals will see a fourth and last game after Amur Khabarovsk beat Dinamo Riga 2-1 (1-1, 0-0, 1-0) today and avoided a sweep for the Latvian guests. The final match is going to be played tomorrow in Khabarovsk and to win the Cup the hosts need to tie the series first before a shootout could give them the title afterwards.

18 Mar 2013, 22:41 | Set for finals in Belarus

Neman Grodno and Metallurg Zhlobin have qualified for the finals of the Belarus league. Neman beat Shakhtar Soligorsk in the semis while Zhlobin knocked out Junior Minsk.

18 Mar 2013, 22:37 | Slavia to semis

HC Slavia Praha was the first team to clinch a semi final spot in the Czech Extraliga. Slavia beat Kladno 4-0 today to win the series 4-1.

17 Mar 2013, 17:05 | Semi finals in GET Ligaen

Semi finals in Norway's top league start tomorrow. Lørenskog-Stavanger Oilers and Sparta Sarpsborg-Vålerenga.

17 Mar 2013, 01:20 | Companion - Donbas-2 will be the final in Ukraine

Companion Naftogaz Kyiv advances for the first time to PHL finals after beating 2-1 SO Sokil Kyiv in a dramatic semifinal game #5. Companion will face champion Donbas-2 that eliminated 3-0 in the series Dynamo Kharkiv.
Regular season dominator Berkut Kyiv was disqualified for financial irregularities and didn't competed in playoffs

17 Mar 2013, 01:09 | Valpellice reach an historic final

By beating Cortina 4-2 in semifinals game #5, Valpellice Bulldogs reach the first final in its history in Italian Serie A. Valpellice will face Asiago that knocked out champion Bolzano in quarter finals and favourite Val Pusteria in semifinals. For the first time since 2001-2002 season a team not finished in the master round reach finals. Asiago finished 6th in the regular season and first in the relegation round.

15 Mar 2013, 15:39 | Sergei Nikoleav passed away

After a long illness former coach Sergei Nikolaev died at 68. Nikolaev was the coach of Torpedo Yaroslavl (former Lokomotiv name) when the team was promoted in Russian Super League for the first time in 1983-84 season. Nikolaev coached Yaroslavl from 1980/81 to 1989/90 and from 1992/93 to 1995/97.
He worked also at Severstal (1996-1997), Metallurg Novokuznetsk (1998-2000, 2006-2007), Kristall Saratov(2000), Salavat Yulaev (2000-2003) and Sibir(2004-2005)

15 Mar 2013, 15:25 | Normunds Sejejs leaves LEV Prague

With a brief statement on team website, LEV Prague announced GM Normunds Sejejs left his position after one season:
"Sports Holding Prague is going to change the control system, making it more centralized. This decision caused the abolition of the position of General Manager of the club
The holding was satisfied with the results shown by LEV during the season, praising the work done by Normunds Sejejs. Largely due to his efforts, LEV was able to achieve its goals in the first season in the League. So we wanted to Normunds Sejejs remained in our organization and offered him the post of consultant management. Unfortunately, Mr. Sejejs rejected our proposal because he wants to continue to act as General Manager, but in our organization is now impossible."

14 Mar 2013, 11:06 | Örebro last team to Kvalserien

Örebro is the last team to qualify for the qualification round to Elitserien, Kvalserien. Örebro won the pre-qual by beating Djurgården in the last round last night when BIK Karlskoga surprisingly lost on home ice to Oskarshamn. Kvalserien starts already today with Timrå-Örebro, Rögle-Västerås & Leksand-Södertälje.

14 Mar 2013, 02:22 | Dmitri Dudik named new coach at Vitebsk

Former national team player Dmitri Dudik, 36, was named new Vitebsk Head Coach. Dudik was in Vitebsk staff this season. Former headcoach Yuri Ivashin will remain in Vitebsk coaching staff

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